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From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Questions (assorted variety )
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Date: 14 Jan 91 12:22:39 GMT
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In a message of 10 Jan 91 17:40:49 GMT, Andrew C. Stoffel said:
[ a lot of questions... ]
> 2a. What do I do with c68 ? Is there a man page out there for it ? And,
>     what do I do with the floating point library stuff that was with
>     the source to it ? There didn't seem to be any instructions in the
>     recently posted source to it.
> 2b. Does c68 + parts of the ACK C stuff = being able to compile
>     software needing floating point ?

There seems to be a lot of people trying to get c68 up and working. Starting
with ACK, you have a lot of work to do before you get a floating-point
capable compiler. I'll try to prepare a tutorial on "How to bootstrap your C68
compiler beginning with ACK" for tomorrow, or maybe after the beginning of the
war :-), if Christoph van Wuellen doesn't beat me...

> 3. Is there anywhere that I can get online man pages (or at least
>    could somebody tell me how large they would be if they existed so I
>    can decide to get another harddisk to put them on :-) ?)

That's about 400K (latest version, not the smaller version that ast sent with
1.5.0).

> 5. There have been several mentions of patches to 1.5.10. What are
>    they relative to ? Where does the version sold thru Prentis Hall
>    fit in ?

Prentice-Hall sells "plain" 1.5, which is 1.5.10. Three patches were
distributed for the ST kernel. Numerous patches were available for the
commands.

> 6. I created an account for myself, tried to 'su' and NOTHING
>    happened. Although I'm the only person using my machine (my wife
>    has her own ST which will very likely NEVER run Minix (Unless I
>    want to try some amoeba stuff)) I'd much rather not be root all of
>    the time just to do things. So what do I do ??

'su' must be owned by root & suid (i.e. chown root su;chmod u+s su). If this
is the case, then something else must be wrong (what does ps says?)

	Vincent Archer
	Email: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com

Thou shalt not follow the null pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its
end.
  -- 2nd commandment for C programmers